February 12, 2008 Executive Committee Motion Regarding
Divestment/Disinvestment in Companies Doing Business in Sudan
Resolved: That the Executive Committee, having voted on February 15, 2006, to prohibit direct
investment of the University’s endowment assets in the government of Sudan or in companies
that are complicit with Sudan’s genocidal policies, modifies those specific prohibitions to
include only those companies that:
1. Engage in business with actors or projects that directly or indirectly benefit the
government of Sudan through providing revenue or arms to the government or by
enhancing the government’s capacity to resist international pressure on Darfur; AND
2. Provide minimal benefit to those outside of government or the small circle of
government supporters based mainly in the Khartoum state; AND
3. Have no significant corporate governance policy to address how a company’s business in
Sudan may contribute to the genocide in Darfur.
Unless other means are established by the Office of Investment Management to identify such
companies, the above policy shall be executed by consulting, on a quarterly basis, a list
promulgated by the Sudan Divestment Task Force.